Ancient Spaces Blog

The Intiwatana site contains three structures, Intiwatana Structure 001, Intiwatana Structure 002 and Intiwatana Structure 003. And... of course, the landscape which contains many staircases.

Matt has done Structure 001 and I am going to finish the rest. First of all, I built(refined) the single rock staircase that leads up to Structure 002. See here for details.

I, then, spend a few hours modeling the structure. It wasn't hard or time consuming, but it was difficult to tell the dimensions especially with half of its entire walls torn down. Again, textures took the longest to create. "Un-shadowing" the outside part of the side walls took an entire day or so. The inside part of the side walls were better because I had more images of them. By matching the seams from two different photos, I managed to get a decent texture after some editing.

The rear part of the structure consists of a series of staircases and terraces, but there's only one photo that shows them clearly. Therefore, I encountered many dimension problems when I tried to model it.